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J.P. Sunshine
12+ albums
psychedelicfolkpsychedelic folk
about
J.P. Sunshine was flower-power-era England's least-famous band would be an overstatement. During the group's lifetime, its lo-fi bedroom recordings never actually made it out of the bedroom and it was only decades after London had stopped swinging that J.P. Sunshine's homemade pop-psychedelia was released. Formed in London in late 1967, J.P. Sunshine was the brainchild of poet George Duffell, also known as Jorgy Porgy (the J.P. in J.P. Sunshine). Duffell was keen to set his poems to music, and an opportunity to do so arose when he met Rod Goodway, a former member of the English pop group the Pack, who had a hit with the Lovin' Spoonful's "Do You Believe in Magic?" Goodway penned simple arrangements for acoustic guitar and a band coalesced around the duo. Duffell (bongos/xylophone) and Goodway (vocals/guitar) were joined by Adrian Shaw (guitar), Pete Biles (bongos), and Duffell's girlfriend, Pat Morphin (percussion). In early 1968, J.P. Sunshine went electric as Goodway recruited former Pack guitarist Andy Rickell (aka Android Funnel) and Shaw moved to bass. In keeping with the spirit of the times, J.P. Sunshine was as much a scene as it was a band; its members congregated in Duffell and Morphin's apartment to listen to the latest American imports (Love, Jefferson Airplane, Captain Beefheart, the Grateful Dead, among others) and to ingest chemicals. Then, under the influence of both, they would write and play music, recording on a primitive two-track machine. J.P. Sunshine's
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albums
J.P. Sunshine
Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts From The British Psychedelic Scene 1966-1968
Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75
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Think I'm Going Weird: Original Artefacts from the British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68
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Think I’m Going Weird: Original Artefacts From the British Psychedelic Scene 1966-68
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J P Sunshine
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Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1964–1969 (50th Anniversary Expanded Super Deluxe Edition)
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Think I'm Going Weird
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s/t
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Songs Of Wild Nothing Pt. 9 (1)
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Sumer Is Icumen In
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Sumer Is Icumen In: The Pagan Sound Of British And Irish Folk 1966-75 (Disc 2)